Here's a breakdown on the history of witchcraft and an answer to the age-old question, "Are witches real?" Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Witchcraft ...

Now, Willow Winsham's The Story of Witches: Folklore, History and Superstition offers a fun, fast, well researched historical summary that is also a stunning work of art. In The Story of Witches, ...

In honor of Women’s History Month, The Seattle Public Library shares four witchy titles in several genres that take place in Japan, Scotland and more.

The history of Scotland's witches is to be revealed in a new book written by the women who campaigned to get a formal state pardon for women burned at the stake hundreds of years ago. How to Kill ...

Witchcraft close witchcraftIn a historical context, this was thought to be a kind of magic that could be used to cause harm to people or property. Witches were often accused of obtaining their ...

The method of execution differed in different countries. For example, people in England were hanged for the crime of witchcraft but in Scotland, witchcraft was classed as heresy — a religious ...

Modern tartans are registered for organisations, individuals, and commemorative purposes in the official Scottish Register of ...

Article continues below "And thirdly, fundamentally, while here in Scotland the Witchcraft Act may have been consigned to history a long time ago, the deep misogyny that motivated it has not.